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Moore, Richard. "Christianity and paganism in Victorian fiction." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683121.
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黃正予 and Ching-yu Wong. "Sou Shen Chi and its relationship to the Taoist religion." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31208964.
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Rine, Abigail. "Words incarnate : contemporary women’s fiction as religious revision." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1961.
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This thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent theorisations of the religious and its relationship to feminine subjectivity, this research considers the subversive potential of engaging with religious discourse through literature, and contributes to burgeoning criticism of feminist revisionary writing. The novels analysed in this thesis show, often in violent detail, that the way the religious dimension has been conceptualised and articulated enforces negative views of female sexuality, justifies violence against the body, alienates women from autonomous creative expression and paralyses the development of a subjectivity in the feminine. Rather than looking at women’s religious revision primarily as a means of asserting female authority, as previous studies have done, I argue that these writers, in addition to critiquing patriarchal religion, articulate ways of being and knowing that subvert the binary logic that dominates Western religious discourse. Chapter I contextualises this research in Luce Irigaray’s theories and outlines existing work on feminist revisionist literature. The remaining chapters offer close readings of key novels in light of these theories: Chapter II examines Atwood’s interrogation of oppositional logic in religious discourse through her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Chapter III explores two novels by Roberts that expose the violence inherent in religious discourse and deconstruct the subjection of the (female) body to the (masculine) Word. Chapters IV and V analyse the fiction of Kennedy and Walker respectively, revealing how their novels confront the religious denigration of feminine sexuality and refigure the connection between eroticism and divinity. Evident in each of these fictional accounts is a forceful critique of religious discourse, as well as an attempt to more closely reconcile foundational religious oppositions between divinity and humanity, flesh and spirit, and body and Word.
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Good, Joseph. "The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4053.
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This dissertation offers critical and theoretical approaches for understanding depictions of Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian fiction. Spiritualism has fascinated and repelled writers since the movement's inception in Hydesville, New York, in 1848, and continues to haunt writers even today. The conclusion of this dissertation follows Spiritualist fiction as it carries over into the Neo-Victorian genre, by discussing how themes and images of Victorian Spiritualism find "life after death" in contemporary work. Spiritualism, once confined to the realm of the arcane and academically obscure, has begun to attract critical attention as more scholars exhume the body of literature left behind by the Spiritualist movement. This new critical attention has focused on Spiritualism's important relationship with various elements of Victorian culture, particularly its close affiliation with reform movements such as Women's Rights.
The changes that occurred in Spiritualist fiction reflect broader shifts in nineteenth-century culture. Over time, literary depictions of Spiritualism became increasingly detached from Spiritualism's original connection with progressive reform. This dissertation argues that a close examination of the trajectory of Spiritualist fiction mirrors broader shifts occurring in Victorian society. An analysis of Spiritualist fiction, from its inception to its final incarnation, offers a new critical perspective for understanding how themes that initially surfaced in progressive midcentury fiction later reemerged--in much different forms--in Gothic fiction of the fin-de-siécle. From this, we can observe how these late Gothic images were later recycled in Neo-Victorian adaptations.
In tracing the course of literary depictions of Spiritualism, this analysis ranges from novels written by committed advocates of Spiritualism, such as Florence Marryat's The Dead Man's Message and Elizabeth Phelps's The Gates Ajar, to representations of Spiritualism written in fin-de-siécle Gothic style, including Bram Stoker's Dracula and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. My analysis also includes the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who conceived of Spiritualism as either "the birth of a new science or the revival of an old humbug." Hawthorne's ambivalence represents an important and heretofore completely overlooked aspect of Spiritualist literature. He is poised between the extremes of proselytizing Spiritualists and fin-de-siécle skeptics. Hawthorne wanted to believe in Spiritualism but remained unconvinced. As the century wore on, this brand of skepticism became increasingly common, and the decline of Spiritualism's popularity was hastened by the repudiation of the movement by its founders, the Fox Sisters, in 1888. Ultimately, despite numerous attempts both scientific and metaphysical, the Victorian frame of mind proved unable to successfully reconcile the mystical element of Spiritualism with the increasingly mechanistic materialist worldview emerging as a result of rapid scientific advances and industrialization. The decline and fall of the Spiritualist movement opened the door to the appropriation of Spiritualism as a Gothic literary trope in decadent literature. This late period of Spiritualist fiction cast a long shadow that subsequently led to multiple literary reincarnations of Spiritualism in the Gothic Neo-Victorian vein.
Above all, Spiritualist literature is permeated by the theme of loss. In each of the literary epochs covered in this dissertation, Spiritualism is connected with loss or deficit of some variety. Convinced Spiritualist writers depicted Spiritualism as an improved form of consolation for the bereaved, but later writers, particularly those working after the collapse of the Spiritualist movement, perceived Spiritualism as a dangerous form of delusion that could lead to the loss of sanity and self. Fundamentally, Spiritualism was a Victorian attempt to address the existential dilemma of continuing to live in a world where joy is fleeting and the journey of life has but a single inexorable terminus. Writers like Phelps and Marryat admired Spiritualism as it promised immediate and unbroken communion with the beloved dead. The dead and the living existed together perpetually. Thus, the bereaved party had no incentive to progress through normative cycles of grief and mourning, as there was no genuine separation between the living and the dead. In the words of one of Marryat's own works of Spiritualist propaganda, there is no death.
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Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. "The ‘crisis’ cornucopia: anxieties of religion and ‘secularism’ in Victorian fiction of colony and gender, 1880-1900." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6370.
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My thesis problematizes the simplistically and widely accepted idea of a Victorian ‘crisis of faith’ or religious ‘decline.’ Most historical and critical narratives of nineteenth-century Britain portray the Victorian Age as a period marked by a crisis of faith and a gradual secularization through (Darwinian) scientific developments. My work questions this by examining the late-Victorian novels of colonial India and the British New Woman novels. My first chapter deals with Victorian popular fiction that presents the invasion of Victorian London by colonial idols. The idols, overdetermined as both Hindu and Theosophist in inspiration, force the British legal system to recognize the limits of its own materialist perceptions of reality, so that it finally arrives at a deeper understanding of spirituality. My second chapter deals with Victorian New Woman novels where I study how the British New Woman as a literary figure, despite apparent unbelief and disempowerment, embodies a deep-seated religious power that can be assumed only by a woman and that helps challenge the assumption of declining faith. My final chapter examines the shift of scene to India, where once again the English men and women inadvertently express their fears of British secularization in the context of their encounter with Oriental faiths, but ultimately arrive at a richer appreciation of the religious ‘impossible’ through this encounter with colonial ‘otherness.’
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Cannon, Natalie M. "The Bound Chronicles." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/216.
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The Bound Chronicles is a fictional story that chronicles the journey of three Irish monks who travel to Britain in 892 AD, the time of the Anglo-Saxons. There, they encounter King Alfred, Vikings, poisonings, but, more harrowing, must face their inner selves and the consequences of their choices.
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Hohman, Xiamara Elena. "Transcending the “Malaise”: Redemption, Grace, and Existentialism in Walker Percy’s Fiction." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272680647.
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Fogelholm, Jens. "Lost in Space : Sökandet efter mening hos människan i Titan A.E." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339480.
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This thesis deals with the depiction of meaningfulness and meaning-making, as seen in human characters in the 2000 animated science fiction film Titan A.E. (directed by Don Bluth). The analysis aims to show how Titan A.E. portrays a collective humanity in their search for a meaningful existence, given the outer space setting of its story. Evil is also brought up, in the context of how it creates meaning within the main narrative of the story. The emotions expressed by the story's characters are treated as if they were real. Meaningfulness and meaning-making get exemplified in both dialogue and visual components seen in the film. In addition to this, some reflection is made on the promotional trailers of Titan A.E. and how their displayed contents differ from the finished product. In parallel to the main analysis, there is a wider discussion made about the relationship between films and their real-world process of production, especially regarding whether theological reflection and the film industry can intersect or not.
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Johnson, Seth. "HISTORY, MYTH AND SECULARISM ACROSS THE BORDERLANDS: THE WORK OF MICHAEL CHABON." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1392155557.
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Kreglinger, Gisela Hildegard. "George MacDonald's Christian fiction : parables, imagination and dreams." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/576.
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Mejias, Sarah J. "Sense and Sensibility: A Sermon on Living the Examined Life." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2387.
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Jane Austen’s novels remain an essential component of the literary canon, but her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is frequently neglected. However, in Sense and Sensibility is the genesis of Austen’s technique through which her major characters cultivate and reveal a strong inner life, demonstrated through the character of Elinor Dashwood. This technique is a characteristic she incorporates in each of her succeeding novels. Her approach to literature centers on the interiority of her characters and their ability to change, but it her first novel Austen takes a unique approach. Following the structure of an eighteenth-century sermon, Austen creates a sermon for lay people that centers on the cultivation of a strong interior life.
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Kurtz, Matthew B. "What Comes After the Blues." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619717430532435.
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Khalidi, Anbara Mariam. ""It was the worst of times; it was the worst of times" : popular prophecy, Rapture fiction, and the imminent apocalypse in contemporary American Evangelism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e2e7da46-9462-448c-88ae-8a98a9482b8d.
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This thesis explores how the Rapture fiction and popular prophecy of modern American premillennial dispensationalism shapes the eschatological beliefs of its readership. This will be accomplished through a text-based critical analysis of the anxiety narratives of the Bible study and exegetical guides of the Tim LaHaye Prophecy Library, and its counterpart, the Left Behind fiction series. This thesis represents the first scholarly analysis of the Tim LaHaye Prophecy Library, and the first situation of Left Behind fiction within its theological context. It will be proposed that these two sets of texts shape the eschatological beliefs of their readers through a discursive ‘streamlining’ that is performed in several ways. Firstly, the historical development of the movement will be examined, exploring the evolution of a specific premillennial dispensationalist hermeneutic and its ‘channelling’ through particular cultural institutions. Secondly, an analysis of the Tim LaHaye Prophecy Library and Left Behind fiction will demonstrate that this premillennial dispensationalist hermeneutic is almost exclusively communicated through anxiety narratives which focus on expressions of horror, isolation, powerlessness and paranoia. It will be argued that these narratives serve to explore ‘abjective’ elements of premillennial dispensationalist belief, re-integrating them into the fabric of the faith. Particular attention will be paid to these abjective elements, which include the role of the eschatological body, the nature of individual salvation, and the perpetual deferment of the Rapture. As such, the popular media of premillennial dispensationalism serves as a further channel for the discursive streamlining of the movement’s prophetic scheme. Finally, this thesis proposes that the ‘deprivation’ theory of millennial appeal does not adequately explain the appeal and success of premillennial dispensationalism. As such, the following analysis will suggest that an alternate critical analysis of the movement, concentrating on its tropes of anxiety, serves to better explain the continued appeal of this ideology.
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Hogan, Marina. "The fictional Savonarola and the creation of modern Italy." University of Western Australia. European Languages and Studies Discipline Group. Italian Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2010.0035.
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This thesis deals with Girolamo Savonarola and with his place in the imagination and collective memory of Italians from the early nineteenth century to the present. It examines the works of a variety of Italian fictional authors who turned to Savonarola in the belief that he could help them pursue objectives which, in their opinion, Italy and Italians should strive to achieve. At first, he was called upon by nationalist writers of the Risorgimento to inspire a people and convince it of the need for a free, united Italy. Later, as the new nation began to consolidate and Italians came to realize that unification had not delivered all that it had promised, Savonarola was employed in a negative way to show that military action and force were necessary to ensure Italy's progress to the status of great power. As Italians became more aware of the grave social issues facing their nation, he was called upon, once again, to help change social policy and to remind the people of its civic responsibility to the less fortunate members of society. The extent of Savonarola's adaptability is also explored through the analysis of his manipulation by the writers of Fascist Italy. Remarkably, he was used to highlight to Italians their duty to stand by Mussolini and the Fascist Regime during their struggle with the Catholic Church and the Pope. At the same time, however, one writer daringly used Savonarola's apostolate to condemn the Regime and the people's blind adherence to its philosophies. As Fascism fell and Italy began to rebuild after the Second World War, there was no longer a need for Savonarola to be used for political or militaristic ends. In recent times, emphasis has been placed on the human side of the Friar and he has been employed solely to guide Italians in a civic, moral and spiritual sense. From the Risorgimento to the present, the various changes in Italian history have been foreshadowed in the treatment of Savonarola by Italian fictional authors who turned to him in difficult times to help define what it is to be Italian.
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Erdem, Servet. "Political fictions and fictional politics : a comparative study of the political unconscious in the Turkish and Kurdish novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:201b1793-bcdd-44c9-9726-de17ed911b2d.
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This thesis presents a comparative and interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between politics and the Turkish and Kurdish novels, which are treated not only as artistic constructions but also as socio-cultural and historical artefacts. The primary objective of this investigation is to understand the principle social, political, and historical reasons and root causes behind the close relationship between politics and literatures in Turkey and the principle socio-political and literary ramifications of such strong relationship. Towards this end, the thesis focuses on four main themes: language, love, religion, and history. Besides being the most common novelistic themes in the Turkish and Kurdish literary institutions, these are inherently heavily politicised and ethno-nationalistically charged themes - thus especially suitable for such inquiry. In line with this politico-historical and literary vein, the thesis also discusses some of the main political questions in Turkey, viz., the reasons behind the failure of Turkish democracy, its maladies and the resultant deadlock on some of the most important issues of the modern history of the country such as the Kurdish imbroglio and the conflict of secularisation and Islam. As the discussions on politics of love, language, religion, and history show, profound ideological competitions and antagonisms do not necessarily mean divergent political and literary structures. As such, the strong links between the Turkish and Kurdish literary institutions, as well as the ordeal of the Kurdish question and democratisation in Turkey, is as much caused by rival nationalisms, hostile ideological positions, and the like as by congruity, parallel political visions, and similar power structures. The main argument of the thesis, thus, is that the Kurdish and Turkish literary, political, and intellectual actors could not contribute towards the solution of the persistent political and literary questions in Turkey because of their failure in adopting a transformative politics and developing fully autonomous literatures. The future of the two literatures, as was in the past, this thesis argues, will remain intrinsically bound to the political structures and developments and the future of democracy in Turkey.
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Meublat, Evelyne. "La fiction ménadique : les cités grecques, les femmes, un dieu, Dionysos." Paris, EHESS, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EHES0334.
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Pourquoi les hommes grecs des cites accueillent-ils dionysos, l'etranger, et permettent-ils a la collectivite des femmes, et notamment a leurs epouses, possedees par la mania, de lui rendre un culte? c'est a partir de l'etude des pratiques rituelles, des mythes, et du discours tragique, que l'on analyse differentes representations feminines : femmes guerrieres et chasseresses identifiees aux hommes, femmes animales, pouliches indompt ees, meres meurtrieres dechainees. Cette figure-la, la plus menacante, vient pour nous en echo au "tous-freres" issus de la terre, comme une alterite subversive a ce "mythe de l'un" citoyen qui denie le rapport des sexes. Cet acte meurtrier recurrent revele une jouissance feminine particuliere, mais aussi devoile sous le meurtre du fils le sacrifice. Dionysos est alors purificateur, par la main des femmes, des bonnes epouses, des meres. La mania dionysiaque, au-dela du plaisir, fait oeuvre de mort pour tous. Et ceci nous entraine vers une analogie entre orphisme et menadismeWhy did the greek men of the cities welcome dionysus, the stranger, and allow the community of women, in particular their wives, possessed by mania, to worship him? we will here analyse, by way of a study of rituals, myths and tragedies, different representations of women : female warriors and hunters, identified with men, animal-like women, untamed fillies, murderous mothers run amok. This figure, the most threatening of all, echoes, for us, the "all-brothers", born of earth, as if it were an otherness subversive of the "myth of one" citizen that denies the existence of a relation between sexes. This recurrent act of murder reveals a particular feminine "jouissance", while unveiling the sacrifice concealed beneath the murder of the son. Dionysus is, then, the one who purifies, acting through women, good wives, mothers. Beyond pleas ure, dionysiac mania is sign of death for all the humans. This leads us to draw an anology between orphism and maenadism
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Hagan, Justice M. "Desert Enlightenment: Prophets and Prophecy in American Science Fiction." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366729757.
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Chevalier, Alain. "Le pouvoir, la religion et le droit dans l'oeuvre de François Rabelais." Lyon 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LYO31013.
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Dans un climat de bouleversement et d'apocalypse, surgit la reforme et deux romans originaux si plaisant a lire qu'ils deviendront vite incontournables : le gragantua et le pantagruel. Par leur succes immediat, les oeuvres de rabelais allaient faire gloser les commentateurs pendant des siecles. Les contemporains du maitre ne tarderont pas a prendre parti sans nuance pour ou contre l'auteur, leursopinions sont decisives pour percer la pensee de l'ecrivain. Ce savant atypique : religieux, medecin, juriste, malgre sa plume critique restera toujours un proche des grands de l'epoque, sa fidelite a son roi ne se dementira pas. Rabelais resistera prudemment aux tourmentes grace a ses amities mais surtout, sous couvert d'evangelisme, par son art de tordre en tous sens les textes sacres. Le futurcure de meudon n'etait pas toujours en harmonie intellectuelle avec les dogmes chretiens, il en a use et s'en est amuse. Impregne de culture antique, les reflexions de rabelais sont avant tout platoniciennes, elles degagent un respect puissant pour l'idee de nature omnipresente dans l'oeuvre, cette derniere doit soumettre la religion, le pouvoir et leur ciment obligatoire : le droit. La veritablereligion du maitre s'appelle "pantagruelisme" ; c'est a dire le triomphe de sa propre opinion sur les croyances, les evenements, les choses, les hommes et les rois. Toute sa vie il va plaider pour la paix, la charite et la liberte, mais son veritable but c'est la recherche de la verite, a ce titre il subira l'influence du "rationalisme". L'evolution de son oeuvre nous montre un rabelais initie aux mysteres, il semble avoir touche de pres la serenite stoicienne en apercevant la lumiere de la lanterne.
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Cornillon, Claire. "Par-delà l'Infini. La Spiritualité dans la Science-Fiction française, anglaise et américaine." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00869974.
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La science-fiction a, depuis ses origines, abordé les questions spirituelles telles que la mort, la transcendance, le sens de la vie et de la condition humaine. Au lieu de se définir comme une littérature d'idées fondée sur la science, elle est bien davantage une littérature d'images qui se fonde sur une " problématisation " de notre monde. Elle construit des configurations fictionnelles qui suscitent, chez le lecteur, un étonnement fondamental, le sense of wonder. Dès lors, elle envisage des problèmes essentiels, qu'ils soient biologiques, politiques, ou spirituels. Ouvrant à un espace-temps potentiellement infini, elle peut mettre en scène des quêtes à l'échelle du cosmos, ouvrir sur l'éternité et le temps du mythe, réinterpréter les grandes traditions religieuses pour les problématiser, ou dessiner un espace du sublime dans la confrontation avec le mystère. Il s'agit de définir la science-fiction comme un genre littéraire problématologique, qui s'appuie sur des récits et des images. Ce travail examine le traitement des questions spirituelles dans la science-fiction française, anglaise et américaine, depuis le XIXe siècle. Il se réfère à une dizaine de romans et trois films. En s'appuyant sur ce corpus spécifique de romans et de films, il s'attache à établir des cadres théoriques et à identifier des œuvres qui constituent des jalons dans l'histoire de la science-fiction et qui illustrent cette perspective problématologique.
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Dorsten, Sara E. "Priest of Wisdom: A Historical Novel Studying Ancient Greek Culture through Creative Writing." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1430788202.
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McArthur, Maxine Elisabeth. "In the gaps left unfilled : historical fantasy and the past." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20297/.
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The thesis consists of the novel The Fox and the Mirror and an accompanying exegesis. The novel is an historical fantasy set in a world based on early medieval (12-13th century) Japan. The main characters are a young female shaman, Hatsu, and a young warrior’s assistant, Sada, who is a Buddhist believer. When Hatsu’s village and shrine are destroyed by warriors and her summoning mirror is stolen, she is abandoned by her kami . To experience the kami’s presence again, she must follow the thief and retrieve the mirror before it can be used to resurrect an ancient evil. Sada must capture Hatsu and bring her back to his lord, or his family will suffer. Yet he is entranced by Hatsu and feels guilt at the destruction of her village. He must choose whether to abandon his former life and stay with Hatsu, or betray her.
In the novel I have tried to invoke the feel of a place and time where the supernatural is as real as the physical world; I also try to imagine how a religion as alien to Japanese native beliefs as Buddhism became a part of that country’s spiritual culture.
In the exegesis I reflect upon how I used various kinds of history, both written and unwritten, to build the world, characters and narratives of The Fox and the Mirror, and thereby explore some ways in which historical fantasy, as a sub-genre of historical fiction, is capable of presenting an ‘authentic’ view of the past, in spite of its non-realistic nature. I identify three main ways historical fantasy writers can provide an authentic view of the past: by using telling details from an historical era; by incorporating documented events and persons into the story; and by portraying the world as people in the past believed it to be. Historical fantasy is different from realistic historical fiction in that it can more easily incorporate elements belonging to shared cultural heritage, such as beliefs regarding the dead and the supernatural. This characteristic involves writers in research using material that involves other ways of knowing the past—in particular the expressions of belief such as religion, popular customs, folk tales, and oral history. With the broadening of our historiological perspectives in the postmodern climate, historical fantasy based on non-documentary forms of history may come to be seen as another way of knowing the past.
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Sag, Mélanie. "Les guerres civiles dans les romans anglais et français de l'époque baroque (1580-1668) : poétique du roman, anatomie du conflit et usages de la fiction." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070032.
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Notre étude porte sur les guerres civiles dans le roman de l'âge baroque (1580-1668) en France et en Angleterre, pays dont l'identité nationale se redéfinit à l'issue de crises dramatiques aux XVI' et XVIIe siècles. Au croisement des études génériques, des théories contemporaines de la fiction et des approches historicistes, notre travail poursuit deux objectifs : contribuer à la connaissance de la poétique romanesque, éclairer les rapports entre littérature et histoire à partir d'un corpus de trente romans encore trop peu connus. La comparaison entre France et Angleterre implique d'abord d'interroger les critères de définition et les frontières du genre romanesque, puis de retracer la généalogie des modèles narratifs de nos auteurs. Une poétique de la guerre est ensuite dégagée par l'analyse des fonctions narratives de la séquence guerrière, de la construction des personnages, de l'écriture de la violence (mise en spectacle ou estompée). L'étude s'achève par l'interprétation des textes, après une réflexion sur le statut du fait et de la fiction. Entre mémoire des guerres de religion et enregistrement à chaud de la Révolution anglaise, les romans de l'âge baroque développent une forme spécifique de roman historique dont les principales caractéristiques sont le déplacement des enjeux collectifs et la métaphorisation de la division religieuse au niveau du couple ou de la famille, ainsi que le recyclage de l'écriture allégorique. Genre dédié à l'amour, contrairement à l'épopée, le roman baroque élabore des représentations variées et complexes de la guerre civile, cette guerre intérieure qui questionne l'identité et l'appartenance, donc l'intime, objet romanesque par excellenceThis work examines the use of civil wars in English and French novels between 1580 and 1668 that is to say during the Baroque period. At this time, France and England were going through a revolutionary political, religious but also social crisis. Our framework is based on genre studies, contemporary theories of fiction and historicity. We aimed at shedding a new light on novel's poetics and analysing the articulation of fact and fiction through the study of a corpus of thirty little-known novels. The comparison between the French novels and the English ones implies to identify what defines the genre of early modern novel and its boundaries for both countries, and determine the genealogy of the narrative models used by the authors. We then establish the poetics of war through the analyses of the narrative functions of war sequences, the way characters are build up and the stylistics of violence (staged or faded). Finally, we suggest an interpretation of the novels. From the remembrance of wars of religion to the record of the English Revolution, Baroque novels constitute a specific form of historical fiction, characterized by the displacement of collective stakes and the metaphorisation of the religious division to the level of the couple or the family but also the recycling of the allegorical writing style. The Baroque novel is dedicated to love as opposed to the epic genre, it offers various and complex representations of civil war, this internai conflict questioning one's identity, faith and sense of belonging, three key concepts of the early modern novel
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Melcher, Christina. ""Honorez-moi souvent de vos lettres ; servez-moi de guide dans le chemin de la vertu." : les fictions épistolaires de Marie Leprince de Beaumont." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0199.
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En Europe au XVIIIe siècle, le roman épistolaire connaissait un grand succès. En France aussi, un grand nombre d'auteurs s'appuyait alors sur ce genre littéraire pour transmettre des idées philosophiques et souvent critiques envers la société de l'époque, à travers des lettres prétendument véritables, à un lectorat croissant.À l'époque, parmi les écrivains dont les œuvres étaient très appréciées par les lecteurs, un nombre non négligeable était composé de femmes. Parmi elles se trouvent par exemple Françoise de Graffigny avec les Lettres d'une Péruvienne ou bien Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni avec plusieurs romans épistolaires comme les Lettres de Fanny Butler.À partir du XIXe siècle, ces auteurs ont souvent été effacées de la mémoire culturelle et ont, pendant longtemps, été délaissées par la recherche littéraire. Parmi elles se trouve Marie Leprince de Beaumont, gouvernante catholique, qui était jusqu'au XIXe siècle surtout connue pour ses ouvrages sur l'éducation des enfants, des jeunes filles et des pauvres. Elle a pourtant publié une œuvre d'une variété étonnante : on y trouve des contes pour enfants, le Nouveau Magasin français, un des premiers journaux mensuels en français à avoir été dirigé par une femme, ainsi que plusieurs romans épistolaires.L'œuvre de cette femme auteur qui, quoique catholique et croyante, essaie de transmettre dans ses livres des perspectives sur les possibilités pour les femmes de mener une vie vertueuse et honnête dans une société imprégnée par la prédominance des hommes, ne fait l’objet de recherches littéraires approfondies que depuis peu de temps.Cette thèse vise à analyser et interpréter la tension entre un christianisme profond et le désir d'améliorer l'accès au savoir pour les femmes dans les romans de Maire Leprince de Beaumont, qui « [...] avait une prédilection affichée pour le genre épistolaire [...] » . Il s'agit d'abord de les placer dans leur contexte littéraire et historique et de situer ensuite l'idée de « l'éducation narrée » au centre des recherches : comment Leprince de Beaumont se sert-elle du genre épistolaire pour communiquer des idées philosophiques ainsi que des modèles de comportement au lecteur ?La thèse veut démontrer qu'au XVIIIe siècle, il était tout à fait possible de concilier le christianisme avec le souhait de faire progresser la société de l'époque en facilitant l'accès au savoir pour les femmes ; qu'être croyant ne voulait pas forcément dire repousser les idées novatrices et que Marie Leprince de Beaumont et son œuvre épistolaire méritent une place honorable parmi les auteurs des LumièresIn 18th century Europe, the epistolary novel was very popular. In France, a great number of authors used this literary genre to spread, across supposedly real letters, the philosophical, and often critical ideas on society (of the time) between a growing readership.At that time, a significant number of authors, whose works were very appreciated by the public, were (was?) female. Among them were for example Françoise de Graffigny with the Peruvian Letters or Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni with serveral epistolary novels like Fanny Butler’s Letters or Julie Catesby’s Letters.From the 19th century, these authors often disappeared from the cultural memory and have been neglected by literary research for a long time. Amongst them we can find Marie Leprince de Beaumont, a catholic governess, who was, in the 19th century primarily known for her educational works for children, young girls and poor people. However, she has published a surprisingly divers œuvre : it consists of fairy tales for children, the Nouveau Magasin français, one of the first monthly journals edited by a woman, a considerable correspondence and several epistolary novels.The work of this female author who, even though she was catholic and believing, tried to pass on in her books new perspectives on the possibilities women had to live a vertous and simple life in a society that was shaped by male predominance, is only recently in the center of enhanced literary research. This thesis wants to analyse an interpret this tension between a profound christianism and the desire to improve womens acces to knowledge and education in the fictions of Marie Leprince de Beaumont who « had a predilection for the epistolary genre ». We will first range the works in their literary and historical context and place then the idea of „narrated education“ in the center of our research: how does Marie Leprince de Beaumont employ the epistolary genre to communicate philosophical ideas and behavioral patterns to her readers ?This thesis wants to show that in the 18th century it was possible to reconcile christianism with the desire to help developping the society by facilitating women’s acces to education ; that believing in God didn’t obligatorily mean that one rejected new ideas and that Marie Leprince de Beaumont and her epistolary fictions deserve their place among the authors of the Enlightenment
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Privitera, Ludivine. "Le fait religieux dans les romans grecs : Un aperçu du paganisme à l’époque impériale ?" Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040193.
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Cette étude s’attache à l’observation et l’analyse du fait religieux dans les romans grecs. Les romans de Chariton, Xénophon d’Éphèse, Longus, Achille Tatius et Héliodore forment un corpus étonnamment cohérent, au vu de la distance temporelle qui les sépare. Ils se refusent pourtant à toute tentative de généralisation en matière religieuse. Prenant le contre-pied des études symbolistes, ce travail présente un relevé exhaustif de la religion observable dans les romans. Sont ainsi étudiés les lieux de culte et leur personnel, ansi que les actes rituels effectués par les personnages. La mise en rapport des cultes romanesques avec l'archéologie et les conceptions religieuses des époques classique et impériale se révèle un moyen de prendre la mesure d’une reconstruction romanesque de la réalité, passée ou contemporaine. Le rapport de valeur établi dans les romans entre sacrifice et prière ainsi qu’entre cultes collectif et personnel permet d'apercevoir certains aspects de la religion propres à l'époque impériale. Mis en relation avec l'usage rhétorique et romanesque du fait religieux, il permet également de définir le projet de chacun des romanciers, en matière religieuse et politique, mais aussi esthétiqueThis thesis concentrates on the observation and analysis of places, people and acts of religion in Greek fiction. Charito, Xenophon Ephesius, Longus, Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus have produced suprisingly similar novels given that they were written at quite different times, although they still resist every attempt at religious generalisation. Traditionnal studies on the subject are symbolistic, on the contrary, here we will analyse the concrete aspects of religion, as they actually appear in these novels. So we will study the sacred places, the priests, and the rituals performed out by the novel's characters. The comparison of these fictionnal cults with archeological findings and religious conceptions from Imperial and Classical times will allow us to mesure the novelist's reconstruction of a reality, pertaining to their present or their past. The respective value given in these novels to sacrifice and prayer, to collective and individual cults shows some modern aspects of Greek religion in the Imperial era. If put in relation with the rhetorical and dramatic use of religion, this will also provide elements to define each novelist's religious, political but also esthetic project
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Joseph, Omran. "L'interaction avec la réalité : de la fiction littéraire à l'être-au-monde L'Enfant du Liban de Mansour Labaki ; L'Aveugle de la cathédrale de Farjallah Haïk ; Khamsin de Jocelyne Awad." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00842009.
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Se référant explicitement à la guerre civile libanaise des années 1975-1978, les trois romans qui constituent le corpus de cette thèse inscrivent l'aventure des héros dans un complexe historique, social, idéologique et psychologique. Les prises de position véhiculées par ces récits problématisent la question de la qualité de la fiction littéraire et celle de ses valeurs transcendantes. Loin de l'illusion du réel et du témoignage, ces fictions réussissent à construire un modèle représentationnel d'univers, construit interactivement entre l'auteur et le lecteur, mobilisant et remodelant des représentations de la réalité. L'autonomie de ce modèle est alors redevable du principe de cohérence que certifient la pertinence des différentes composantes, discernables grâce aux analyses disciplinaires, et leur incorporation dans le dispositif fictionnel. La fiction est ainsi le lieu d'une expérience du monde qui suscite des questions philosophiques sur les relations de l'être à l'univers de sa vie, tel que cet univers, tant matériel qu'humain, se manifeste à la conscience. Selon cette perspective phénoménologique, les structures idéologiques de l'être-au-monde fondent la valeur transcendante de la fiction et sous-tendent les interactions illimitées entre la conscience et l'existence, l'individuel et le collectif, l'absolu et le relatif. S'inscrivant dans la tradition du roman occidental, ces fictions sous-tendent la synergie du fait littéraire national et l'osmose de mentalités et de goûts qui se perpétue, au travers de la production romanesque, entre l'individuel, le local et l'universel.
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Schincariol, Marcelo Tadeu. "A arte complexa de ser infeliz = a ficção de Cornelio Penna." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269950.
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Orientador: Enid Yatsuda FredericoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma leitura da ficção de Cornélio Penna que privilegia a articulação entre as dimensões religiosa e social, aproximando assim os dois extremos em que grande parte da crítica tem localizado a obra do autor. Trata-se de um percurso de análise em que a noção de Itabirismo, conforme a concebe Cornélio Penna, ilumina o mergulho do romancista no universo de nossa formação social e cultural, como também o diálogo entre sua ficção e o grande romance católico do início do século XX.
Abstract: The present study consists of an analysis of Cornélio Penna's fiction focusing on the intersection between both religious and social dimensions in his work. In its analytical path, the notion of Itabirismo, conceived by the novelist, highlights his journey into the Brazilian cultural background, as well as the dialogue between his fiction and the Catholic novel from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Literatura Brasileira
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Shuck, Glenn William. "Marks of the beast: "Left Behind" and the internalization of evil in American evangelical prophecy fiction." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/18702.
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Despite the remarkable economic prosperity of the 1990's, Americans purchased enormous numbers of evangelical prophecy novels that specialized in depictions of impending destruction. This phenomenon might appear counterintuitive, as the New Economy, driven by rapid technological development, materially enhanced the lives of many. The economic expansion, however, also revealed cultural fissures indicating deeper concerns about the self and the possibility of its absorption into the technological matrix. Evangelical prophecy writers responded with texts that while deceptively banal, nevertheless made the incomprehensible aspects of the emerging global culture appear familiar to their readers, depicting a world in which humans could regain responsibility over their futures.
The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins has emerged as the most popular exemplar of the genre in part due to its ability to address post-Cold War themes among a readership less interested in external threats. While Left Behind uses the same symbols as its predecessors, impugning globalization, multinational capital, and the cultural changes consistent with late modernity, its emphasis shifts towards the perceived effects of such developments upon evangelical identity. As the webs of relationships that bind the world together tighten, the novels speak to the anxieties of many evangelicals who feel their identity threatened.
Most critically, the novels break with a history of resignation and inaction, proposing a means of resistance against the forces of globalization. The overarching response in Left Behind, however, is more problematic than those advocated by previous novelists, both for evangelicals and others in North American culture. Faced with the twin dangers of isolationism and over-accommodation, the novels suggest different possibilities. The first foregrounds faith, and accepts the ambiguity inherent in contemporary life, while the second, more dominant theme advocates a drive for security and certainty that ultimately incorporates the logic of the Beast culture evangelicals seek to resist, further endangering evangelical identity while increasing tensions with non-evangelicals.
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Kwong, Lucas Emile. "Extravagant Practices: Experiencing Religious Pluralism in the Victorian Fantastic." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8D799SM.
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This dissertation explores how Victorian fantastic fiction reimagined an experience central to its era: the full range of affective responses to religious pluralization, from devotion to disillusionment. Indeed, "Extravagant Practices" argues that authors of the fantastic gave voice to late Victorian Britain’s dawning awareness of creeds outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Toward the close of the nineteenth century, three interrelated developments fueled this awareness: unprecedented proximity to Asian traditions, made possible by imperial circuits of knowledge; comparativist accounts of world religions, which stressed their hidden unity; and the array of esoteric spiritual movements, such as Theosophy and occultism, in which “Christian Britain” took increasing interest. These developments exerted powerful but conflicting pressures on believers and freethinkers alike. In yoking supernatural events to naturalistic detail, authors such as Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Bram Stoker found a way to capture the sometimes exhilarating, often disorienting experience of exploring religious difference at the fin de siecle. Far from offering mere escapes from disenchanted modernity, then, the fantastic fictions surveyed in this dissertation illumine the complex religious lives of the late Victorians.
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Fanucchi, Sonia. "Realism and ritual in the rhetoric of fiction: anti-theatricality and anti-catholicism in Brontë, Newman and Dickens." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20798.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements of Doctor of Philosophy, Johannesburg, 2016.This thesis is concerned with the meeting point between theatre and religion in the mid-Victorian consciousness, and the paradoxical responses that this engendered particularly in the novels and thought of Dickens, Newman and Charlotte Brontë. It contributes to the still growing body of critical literature that attempts to tease out the complex religious influences on Dickens and Brontë and how this manifests in their fiction. Newman is a religious writer whose fictional treatment of spiritual questions in Callista (1859) is used as a foil to the two novelists. There are two dimensions to this study: on the one hand it is concerned with the broader cultural anti-Catholic mood of the period under consideration and the various ways in which this connects with anti-theatricality. I argue that in the search for a legitimate means of expressing religious sentiments, writers react paradoxically to the latent possibilities of the conventions of religious ceremony, which is felt to be artificial, mystical, transcendent and threatening, inspiring the same contradictory responses as the theatre itself. The second dimension of this study is concerned with the way in which these sentiments manifest themselves stylistically in the novels under consideration: through a close reading of Barnaby Rudge (1841), Pictures From Italy (1846), and Villette (1852), I argue that in the interstices of a wariness of Catholicism and theatricality there is a heightening of language, which takes on a ritual dimension, evoking the paradoxical suggestions of transcendent meaning and artificiality associated with performance. Newman’s Callista (1859) acts as a counterpoint to these novels, enacting a more direct and persuasive argument for the spiritual value of ritual. This throws some light on the realist impulse in the fiction of Brontë and Dickens, which can be thought of as a struggle between a language that seeks to distance and explain, and a language that seeks to perform, involve, and inspire. In my discussion of Barnaby Rudge (1841) I argue that the ritual patterns in the narrative, still hauntingly reminiscent of a religious past, never become fully embodied. This is because the novel is written in a style that could be dubbed “melodramatic” because it both gestures towards transcendent presences and patterns and threatens to make nonsense of the spiritual echoes that it invokes. This sense of a gesture deferred is also present in the travelogue, Pictures from Italy (1846). Here I argue that Dickens struggles to maintain an objective journalistic voice in relation to a sacramental culture that is defined by an intrusive theatricality: he experiences Catholic practices and symbolism as simultaneously vital, chaotic and elusive, impossible to define or to dismiss. In Villette (1852) I suggest that Charlotte Brontë presents a disjuncture between Lucy’s ardour and the commonplace bourgeoisie world that she inhabits. This has the paradoxical effect of revitalising the images of the Catholic religion, which, despite Lucy’s antipathy, achieves a ghostly presence in the novel. In Callista (1859), I suggest that Newman concerns himself with the ritual possibilities and limitations of fiction, poetry and theatre. These dramatic and literary categories invoke and are ultimately subsumed in Christian ritual, which Newman considers the most refined form of language – the point at which detached description gives way to communion and participation. Keywords: Victorian literature, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, John Henry Newman, ritual, religion, realism, theatricality, anti-Catholicism
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"探索<枕中記>的宗敎啓悟思想: 唐人小說的宗敎主題硏究." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889582.
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龍詠怡.論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 1998.
參考文獻: leaves i-xv.
中英文摘要.
Long Yongyi.
Chapter 1. --- 導言 --- p.1
Chapter 2. --- 試論唐人小說之宗敎主題 --- p.8
Chapter 3. --- 方法論
Chapter 3.1 --- 宗敎啓悟理論 --- p.14
Chapter 3.2 --- 宗敎啓悟與文學 --- p.22
Chapter 4. --- 版本與作者
Chapter 4.1 --- 版本源流 --- p.30
Chapter 4.2 --- 現今學者所採納之版本 --- p.33
Chapter 4.3 --- 作者及寫作問題
Chapter 4.3.1 --- 作者問題 --- p.34
Chapter 4.3.2 --- 寫作日期 --- p.38
Chapter 5. --- 故事詮釋
Chapter 5.1 --- 故事佈局
Chapter 5.1.1 --- 時間設定 --- p.40
Chapter 5.1.2 --- 地點設定 --- p.42
Chapter 5.2 --- 故事人物
Chapter 5.2.1 --- 呂翁
Chapter 5.2.2 --- 身份 --- p.44
Chapter 5.2.3 --- 啓悟導師之形像 --- p.47
Chapter 5.2.4 --- 盧生
Chapter 5.2.5 --- 受啓悟前之困及價値取向 --- p.51
Chapter 5.2.6 --- 啓悟者之身份 --- p.56
Chapter 5.3 --- 夢中世界 --- p.60
Chapter 5.3.1 --- 夢中的啓悟試煉 --- p.63
Chapter 5.3.2 --- 〈枕中記〉史實/小說 --- p.80
Chapter 6. --- 總言 --- p.86
附錄 --- p.89
參考書目 --- p.i-xv
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Singh, Sanjana. "Messiahs and martyrs : religion in selected novels of Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11839.
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The focus of this dissertation is Frank Herbert‘s use of messiahs and martyrs in selected
novels of the Dune Chronicles. I make connections with Herbert‘s studies, inspirations and
background to his treatment of religion, establishing the translation of these ideas in the texts.
To identify and study every aspect of religion in the series is impossible; however, I will
include other features that I deem important to my understanding of the religious theme in
these texts. I intend to scrutinize these novels to find evidence of Herbert‘s claim that he
studied religion at great length. I will also observe Herbert‘s attitude to and engagement with
religion in the Dune ChroniclesEnglish Studies
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Mayekiso, Almitta Cordelia Theresa-Marie. "Cultural and religious contrasts and symbiosis in D.B.Z. Ntuli's short stories." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8640.
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Wielenga, Corianne. "The dialogue between Christianity and postmodernism in selected postmodern novels." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2594.
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This paper seeks to explore the dialogue between postmodern thought and Christian theology. The dialogue will be grounded in four postmodern novels: Toni Morrison's Beloved, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Jill Paton Walsh's Knowledge of Angels, and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In many Church circles, it has often been said that postmodernism, as it manifests itself in popular culture, is a threat to the Christian faith. However, I will be arguing that the opposite is the case, and that postmodernism has allowed for new ways of thinking about the self that has great resonance with certain theological conceptions of the self. It will be argued that the postmodern subject is one that seeks to make sense of 'the other' without risking the exploitation of the other, and that this lies very close to the theological concept of relationship, based on the idea of covenant. The self as responsible to an other and as a participant in community will be explored, from both the postmodern and theological perspectives. Before exploring issues of the self, this thesis will contextualize the dialogue by exploring postmodern conceptions of space and time. It will examine how ideas around space and time have been imagined throughout human history, thereby contextualizing the emergence of postmodern thinking. It will then show how this emergence of a postmodern space and time in fact creates new possibilities for the Christian faith to reexpress itself in ways that are more relevant to the 21st century. The concluding chapter of this thesis brings to light the longing within our postmodern reality for a place we can call home, a place where we can belong, and find healing. Such a place, such a homecoming, is offered to us in the spaces opened up to us by the dialogue between the Christian faith and postmodernity, and is found within a community of people who are learning that, as, postmodern philosopher Emmanuel Levinas states, "there is something more important than my life, and that is the life of the other" (in Beavers, 1996,16).Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.
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(8850251), Ghaleb Alomaish. "“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." Thesis, 2020.
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This dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its culture and people in the West. They also simultaneously unsettle the notion of homogeneity and enable us to gain new insight into self-perception within the local Saudi context by offering a wide scope of genuine engagements with distinctive themes ranging from spatiality, identity, ethnicity, and gender to slavery, religiosity and (post)modernity. On the other side, American authors still show some signs of ambivalence towards the depiction of the Saudi (Muslim/Arab) Other, but they nonetheless also demonstrate serious effort to emancipate their representations from the confining legacy of (neo)Orientalist discourse and oil politics by tackling the concepts of race, alterity, hegemony, radicalism, nomadism and (un)belonging.